Alternative energy fuels path to future (The Echo: Thu, 01 Mar) The Advanced Transportation Technology Institute (ATTI) is working with UTC to bring the future of alternative energy sources to Chattanooga. The ATTI partnered with UTC to develop clean fuels and energy and apply them to both consumer and industrial systems, according to Dan Simpson, head of the program.
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FACTBOX - Some National Renewable Energy Targets (Planet Ark: Mon, 26 Feb) A growing number of countries are targeting increased usage of renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, as they try to curb greenhouse gas emissions and source more energy from home rather than import coal and oil.
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David Roberts: Nuclear Power is Not Rational or Forward-Thinking, Even If You Say So Over and Over Again (HuffingtonPost: Tue, 27 Feb) Back when I first read Stewart Brand's Environmental Heresies , I wrote about it admiringly and, in retrospect, somewhat naively. Of the nuclear debate, I said that there's an array of great arguments against nuclear power, and one real argument in its favor: There's no other way to cut our CO2 emissions fast enough. That argument, I said, "strikes me as decisive if it's true." Since ...
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ALTERNATIVE-ENERGY CRISIS? (Journal-Advocate: Fri, 02 Mar) Wind collection effort was grounded Thursday, as a portion of a windmill to be constructed near Peetz got caught in a bind.
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Geothermal seminar set for Tuesday night (The Herald-Press: Fri, 02 Mar) An informational seminar on geothermal heating and cooling will be held Tuesday night at United REMC near Markle. Registration begins at 6 p.m. and the seminar gets underway at 6:30 p.m. To register, call United REMC at 758-3155 by noon Monday, March 5.
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Alstom, Iberdrola Win $198.2M Contract (AP via Yahoo! Finance: Fri, 02 Mar) French power generation company Alstom SA said Friday it won a euro470 million contract in combination with Spanish utility Iberdrola to modernize the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Mexico's Veracruz state.
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Lou Ann Hammond on carlist.com (Carlist: Sat, 03 Mar) Lou Ann Hammond provides timely poignant insight for carlist.com and MSNBC television on advanced alternative energy technologies, specifically diesel, ethanol, hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, bio and synthetic fuels related to automobiles and the United States energy security quest from foreign oil dependence.
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